The change also has one of my pet hates: the -f flag to rm.
It not only means force, it means ignore errors.
If you're not interested in errors, why attempt to do it in the first place?
git has done an excellent job of bringing this abuse into the 2010s. If you need to delete a local copy of a git repo, which is often only useful for a couple minutes while evaluating code, you have to do something to override the read only files git creates. Mercurial doesn't have this issue.
